Diagnosis and Treatment of Dyspepsia in the Elderly

Drugs & Aging

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 347-354

  Pound, Susan E ^a   Heading, Robert C ^b  

^a Royal Victoria Hospital Edinburgh   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPEPSIA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; REVIEW; STOMACH TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPEPSIA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; PEPTIC ULCER; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029400445     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199507050-00003     Document Type: Review

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